Him and their stars.

Chapter 1665: Fewer and Fewer Friends

Yu Lian knew that this Mori Space City was also one of the autonomous space cities in the Sanqi Star Region, and its background was even stronger than that of the Toswa Autonomous Territory where the Iceship Expedition Fleet entered - because its sovereignty was entrusted by the Alliance.

It can even be said that the main investor of Space City is the Rainbow Rose Chamber of Commerce. Most of the city's fiscal surplus and real estate rents must be turned over to the foundation headquarters.

In a sense, all the citizens of Space City are considered employees of the Bei family.

Of course, this spirit of working across the galaxy and tens of thousands of light years is certainly touching, but it is not the end. The end is that autonomous space cities like this, which are located at the intersection of transportation, are often the distribution centers of various gossips and underground intelligence.

It’s not surprising that Tan Jize can get information here.

Of course, anyone with a little emotional intelligence and connections can easily collect all kinds of true and false underground intelligence. But the real test lies in distinguishing, analyzing, summarizing and summarizing all kinds of information.

From ancient times to the present, there have been incompetent intelligence departments that have been dizzy with all kinds of messy true and false information, and the decision makers at the top can only make wrong judgments.

However, there are always intelligence experts who can find the clearest and most important real information from a confusing sea of ​​clues.

Yu Lian was actually very relieved about this.

In the previous life, Tan Jize was one of the founders and leaders of the Volunteer Army, and also the intelligence director of the Volunteer Army. Under extremely limited resources, he still established an intelligence network throughout the occupied areas of the community, and even built several capable intelligence stations within the empire.

Even when the community was completely broken up and the remnants of the Volunteer Army went their separate ways, with the hope of restoring the country almost slim, some transportation stations were still trying to operate. Even the wandering hero Yu Lian received help several times, and once even saved his life.

Of course, Yu Lian did ask who those intelligence stations that were still in operation were responsible to, but he didn't get a definite answer, which was really terrifying when you think about it!

Well, it seems that everyone who has the potential to be qualified to be prime minister is also a natural intelligence master.

Since he was the one who specifically raised the issue, Yu Lian of course took it seriously immediately.

"Please speak!" Yu Lian turned on the recording function of the terminal.

"The Kingdom of Circe has purchased a large amount of military supplies from the Republic of Minlan, as well as from the more distant countries of Leka and Nelson, and they are being transferred through the Sanqi Star Region. When I was resupplying in Mori, I saw eight Giant Rock-class freighters loaded with military supplies passing by in just half a day."

This giant cargo ship is also a famous space ship that has been in service for many years. Its disadvantages are that it is heavy and slow, and its speed is average. Its advantages are that it is thick and has a big belly. Although it is not as good as the Alliance's Poseidon ship, it is also a very classic giant cargo ship.

"Oh? The Kingdom of Circe is planning to massively expand its military? They probably haven't recovered from the war three years ago yet. If they expand their military now, I'm afraid it will hurt them."

Yu Lian was full of sympathy for those passionate Tusk Turtle people. The war with the Principality of Haiyal three years ago was originally just a border conflict, but somehow it turned into a bloody full-scale war. At least one-third of the star regions of the Circe Kingdom were burned, and at least hundreds of millions of refugees crossed the star sea and hid in the Atlantis star region of the Blue Star Community.

Even after the war, many refugees were stranded in the community. These tough and resistant giant turtles severely lowered the minimum wage level in the country, which in a sense was one of the reasons for the Lonely Night City incident.

In addition, Feifei's road to fame as a great director actually started with that documentary about Circassian refugees.

However, perhaps the boomerang is the truth of the universe. At first, the people on Earth could look down on the Circassians who were caught in the war, but three years later, the positions were reversed.

...Well, I am actually qualified to sympathize with them, how arrogant! Yu Lian began to reflect on himself.

In short, after the war, the Principality of Haiar, which was a vassal of the Empire, was naturally destroyed, but the Kingdom of Circe was also in a state of disrepair. At this time, it would certainly not be beneficial to the people's livelihood to vigorously expand the army. However, it is understandable that they want to reorganize their armaments and strengthen national defense while hiding in fear while the Empire and the Community are fighting.

Tan Jize said, "But the equipment of the Circe Kingdom is basically from the Alliance. Their battleships were almost all designed with the help of the Alliance. If they really want to reorganize their armaments, shouldn't they import them from the Alliance?"

Yu Lian really wanted to say that maybe the alliance was too expensive.

But in fact, although the masters of the alliance chaebols are greedy, they are still more tolerant than the beautiful women in my hometown in my previous life. The Kingdom of Circe, which is close to the empire and willing to follow them, has always enjoyed the treatment of a strategic ally. Most of the armaments are sold at a discounted price with the most preferential treatment.

In comparison, the people of Minlan, who have maintained a neutral stance for two thousand years, need to make money.

"You also know the style of the Minlan people. Their military industry is self-contained and very original." said Tan Jize.

Yu Lian nodded. After all, besides the Empire and the Alliance, they were the third country in the universe to light up the self-developed dreadnought technology tree. Their country was not big, and their race was not brave, but their technology research and development and engineering level were always online. Of course, their armaments were also online.

"Their arsenal is large, and they have production licenses for a large number of Imperial and Alliance equipment." Tan Jize added.

This is actually due to historical reasons. When the Empire and the Alliance joined forces to strangle the Ero Empire, when the fleets of both sides entered the heartland of the Ero people, the supply line from the mainland was naturally stretched too long.

Therefore, the two overlords chose a nearby logistics base that could be supported, which was the Minlan Republic, which had always been permanently neutral.

Shipbuilding technology will definitely not be taught, but repair factories and supporting factories for various parts and components can be set up. In addition, ammunition, firearms, mechas, small fighters and auxiliary ships, as well as various types of military energy packs, can also be authorized for production.

Because of the service of the two overlords, and the fact that the Minlan people did a good job, their country did develop. Until now, the Minlan Republic also has a large number of arsenals built during the Third Galactic War, and they have always played the role of a technological power and arms dealer.

If the Kingdom of Cherke has an urgent desire to rearm, purchasing equipment from Minlan may not be very cost-effective, but at least it is close.

"So, what you mean is..." Yu Lian was a little confused.

Tan Jize said: "The owner of the Port Tavern told me that they just received a few wolflings. Those werewolves ate up half of the tavern's fresh meat inventory. They are big customers."

"A Wolverin? An Imperial officer?"

"It's hard to say. However, they are indeed crew members from one of the giant cargo ships. Of course, the Wolverins are not necessarily imperial soldiers, they may also be mercenaries or ship security." Yu Lian felt that something was wrong. The Wolverins are a race that attaches great importance to clan community relations, and are also a famous warrior race in the empire. Basically, they are collectively recruited by the Imperial Army as a town and organized into stormtroopers. There are indeed a few examples of Wolverins running out to become mercenaries, but they are very rare, as rare as the children of Tirilo military nobles running to become strippers.

In such a delicate situation, it is better not to treat low-probability events as coincidences.

Tan Jize certainly had this understanding. So, after returning to the ship, he asked "Miss Chunjun" to go and investigate. After all, he didn't have any professional intelligence personnel, so he could only ask the strongest psychic to do it.

  No matter what, psychics are always better at climbing walls and sneaking around than ordinary people, right?

perhaps……

"Well, although I have never seen Miss Chunjun, she is actually a 'Guardian'. Like 'Ashura', both are good at frontal combat, but one is more offensive and the other is more defensive." Yu Lian said.

"I already know this. I have studied mysticism seriously." Tan Jize said, "I also know that compared to Shura, Guardian's emotions are more stable, he is more practical in combat, and he is more adaptable to techniques."

Very good, you can see that. Lao Tan really understands occultism, he is not just pretending to understand it.

"so……"

"Chunjun had some friction with the ship's security, and things got a little too intense. Of course, she still managed to sneak onto the ship. Don't worry, she didn't alert the Mori City police, and she didn't involve us."

Yu Lian was silent for a moment, then gave a thumbs up: "Although the way you sneaked in does concern me, as long as it succeeds, it's fine. So, can you see any problems?"

"Miss Chunjun only had time to open one container in the cargo hold and found neatly arranged T77 standard kinetic energy shells."

"T series shells? No. 77? Those after No. 50 are all large-mass shells specially used for battleship guns. However, the battleships of the Circe Kingdom are all from the Alliance, and the kinetic energy guns they are equipped with are of the North Wind series, which cannot use T-type shells." Yu Lian's face became even gloomier.

"On the contrary, we are the ones who use T-type shells in large quantities, and of course there is also..." Tan Jize stretched out his tone.

"And there's also the Empire and his minions." Yu Lian said.

"Yes, and the Empire." Tan Jize's voice was a little gloomy at this time.

"..."

Although the Blue Star Community is fighting the Empire fiercely, the imperial flavor is actually very strong in its armaments and armed systems, and it is only in recent years that a little bit of alliance flavor has begun to appear.

Tan Jize added: "However, the Kingdom of Circe is also one of our potential allies. When they were at the Unity Fortress, the two regiments of marines they left behind also accepted the unified command of Commander Yang, right?"

Yu Lian nodded slightly: "There are nearly a thousand volunteers from various navies in Yang's fleet, and nearly half of them are Circassians."

At the beginning, Yang's fleet withdrew nearly 10,000 friendly troops from other countries from the Unity Fortress. Most of them withdrew from the Tower of Babel to New Shenzhou with the civilians. As for the rest, they were all elites in King Circe's army, who always regarded the entire Galactic Empire as an enemy. If anyone wanted to attack the Empire, they would definitely help.

Anyway, they were in the New World and could not receive the latest orders from home, so they could only follow the orders during the Battle of Judgment.

The attitude of the Circe Kingdom can actually be seen from the ordinary soldiers. In fact, when the war just started, the Circe Kingdom was one of the first countries to publicly condemn the Empire, even earlier than the neighboring Alliance.

If we were to ask where the Community could seek external aid, apart from the tough-minded Palladians of the Iron Army, perhaps it would be these passionate Tusker tortoises of Circe.

"Optimistically speaking, this batch of shells may be prepared to be resold to us." Tan Jize said: "Under pressure from the empire, most countries have begun to stop the arms trade. But considering the hatred between the Circassians and the empire, it is not surprising that they are helping behind the scenes."

"What about pessimism? This is the key point." Yu Lian said.

Tan Jize pondered for a moment and said, "Pessimistically speaking, we need to pay attention to the actions of the Kingdom of Circe. There is no eternal friendship between countries, and of course there will be no eternal hatred. Although Circe is a powerful country of the same size as the Community, other countries below the two poles have little autonomy. Knowing the current situation is our only way to survive."

Yu Lian let out a sympathetic sigh, but he didn't know whether he was sympathizing with himself or others.

Tan Jize added: "Strictly speaking, even we are just the thugs used by the Alliance to weaken the Empire. Of course, the Empire is also happy to see it happen. If they can conquer us a second time, the strategic balance will tilt towards the Empire. Anyway, the Co-Prosperity Party has its influence in all walks of life, and the candidates to maintain the organization are ready."

Yu Lian actually has a different opinion on this point.

"It's not that simple. Even if we really complete the second conquest, there will be people whose legs and feet are not strong enough to kneel down. Then, the Alliance will definitely support these stubborn children from behind to continue to resist. Even if they cannot restore their country, they should destroy the original territory of the community and make the cognition between the people of each star region more and more divided. At that time, even if they cannot restore the country of the earthlings, they can divide this place into many small countries, and still tip the strategic balance back."

Tan Jize's eyes lit up: "Yes, this is the most likely scenario. You are worthy of being called such. This is the foresight of a strategist!"

I'm just retelling my past life experience. Even with Yu Lian's shamelessness, he felt a little embarrassed by the compliment, and hurriedly asked: "Do you think the Kingdom of Circe will join the Empire and attack us?"

Tan Jize still shook his head and said firmly: "Absolutely impossible!"

"Oh?"

"The bigger the organization, the more difficult it is to change its policy. What about a country? The people of the Kingdom of Circe have become accustomed to being the vanguard of the anti-empire movement in the Alliance camp. Hatred of the Hyar people and hatred of the Galactic Empire behind them have become a racial consensus to some extent. But it's different for a huge country. Of course, it can turn around, but it's impossible for it to do so without leaving any clues."

"You seem to be contradicting what you just said?"

"It's not contradictory. Racial consensus is one thing, but the judgment of decision-makers is another. There are too many examples of this in our history. What's more, even if they want to prepare for war with all their strength, they can only do defense at best. Active attack is absolutely impossible."

Indeed, after the tragic "Chelke's Tragedy", the tortoise brothers of Chelke are still relying on exchanging second-hand warships on the international market to deal with the big pirates in the Abyss Nebula, and it is almost impossible for them to have the ability to actively attack the community.

They actually didn't need to do so. Even if they really did join the Empire, they didn't need to be so fanatical about converting, otherwise the country would definitely blow itself up first.